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Tennessee Williams Inspirational Quotes (134)

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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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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, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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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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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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