Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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It 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.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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