Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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