All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThey told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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