I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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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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