Tennessee Williams quotes

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. (Tennessee Williams)
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams
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
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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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
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
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. (Tennessee Williams)
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.
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The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
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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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Security is a kind of death.
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I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. (Tennessee Williams)
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
Tennessee Williams
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
Tennessee Williams