There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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