A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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