We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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