533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams


  • Author Tennessee Williams
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    Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

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  • Author Tennessee Williams
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    He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

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    I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

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