Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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