Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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