Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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