There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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