A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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