I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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