We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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