A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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