To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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