The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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