Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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