Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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