Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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