I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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