Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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