Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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