Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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