But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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