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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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