To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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