I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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