All Tennessee Williams Quotes
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. 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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams
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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. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee Williams
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams
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All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams
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If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
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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.
Tennessee Williams
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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.
Tennessee Williams
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