The name of a person you love is more than language.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSJust tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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