We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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