To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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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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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