Tennessee Williams Short Quotes

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages

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Make voyages!—Attempt them!—there's nothing else...

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Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare!

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It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

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Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

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If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.

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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

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Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.

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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

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We have to distrust each other. It's our only defence against betrayal.

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Whoever you are — I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

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There is a time for departure, even when there is no certain place to go.

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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance.

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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

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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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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?

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You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!

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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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