Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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