We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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