Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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