All Tennessee Williams Quotes
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee Williams
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee Williams
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams
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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.
Tennessee Williams
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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 - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Tennessee Williams
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee Williams
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