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"54 Tennessee Williams Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 26 March 1911. Died: 25 February 1983 | Playwright |

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Demons Rid Lose Angels
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Broken Mountains Rocks Violets
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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.

Heart Human Human Heart Like
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Certain Departure Even Go
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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.

Blocked Come Concentrating Out
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If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Am Because Concerned Deal
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Always Am Everyone I Love
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Cruel Describe Frankness People
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Apprehend Basic Equipped Fully
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Alive Day Only Really
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Always Character Deal Even
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Cannot Honest Man Separated
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Appear Confidence Feel Influenced
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To be free is to have achieved your life.

Achieved Free Life Your
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Better Hell Lot Nature
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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Always Depended Kindness Strangers
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
Believing Luck Lucky You
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Any Brother Dangerous Human
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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.

Burns Call Department Down
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Appalling Earned Experiences Grace
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Based Concept Delinquent God
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

God Guinea Guinea Pigs Humanity
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Confinement Inside Life Our
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Alone Lonely Many Seem
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Everything Happen Memory Music
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Catch Except Goes Going
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Money Old Without You
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Disastrous Equally Failure Success
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Against Betrayal Defense Distrust
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
Between Distance Longest Places
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Because Day Dead Forward
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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.

Back Beautiful Beautiful People Gently
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Another Aside Deeply Feel
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Also Hypocrite Liar Only
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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.

Artist Danger Door He
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Because Did Found I Write
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Enthusiasm Important Important Thing Life
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Death Life Many Moment
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Choose Friends Life Made
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Believe Dignity Importance Life
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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.

Allow Call Future Important
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
Breaks Bundle Single Strong
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Always Even Friend Give
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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

Body Country Defend Fathers
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Death Enter Fear Heart
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Day Death Divide For The Day
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

All People None People Respect
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
Die Dreams End Greatness
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Fault Food Give Joy
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Am Fortune I Am Maker
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Tennessee Williams Quotes & Sayings