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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)
Success and failure are equally disastrous. View quote
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. View quote
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. View quote
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. View quote
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. View quote
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. View quote
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I don't want realism. I want magic! View quote
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. View quote
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. View quote
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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. (Tennessee Williams)
A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. View quote
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Make voyages Attempt them ... there's nothing else. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding-not even that-no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all. View quote
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. View quote
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Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? View quote
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function! View quote
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. View quote
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Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty. View quote
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years! (Tennessee Williams)
Everybody is nothing until you love them. View quote
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . View quote
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Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm! View quote
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They told me to take a streetcar named desire and then transfer to on called cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian fields! View quote
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Tennessee Williams

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Occupation: American Dramatist
Born: March 26, 1911
Died: February 25, 1983
Quotes count: 169
Wikipedia: Tennessee Williams

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