There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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