You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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