Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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