Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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