Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI am more faithful than I intended to be!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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