But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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