To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSKill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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