There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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