Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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