Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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