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Tennessee Williams Inspirational Quotes (134)

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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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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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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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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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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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