The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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