Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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