Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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 strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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