Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI am more faithful than I intended to be!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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