Tennessee Williams Quotes

• All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness!

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• He was meddling too much in my private life.

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• It haunts me, the passage of time. 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. But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary.

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• We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

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

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• At the age of 14 I discovered writing as an escape from…being called a sissy by the neighborhood kids, and Miss Nancy by my father.

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

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• What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, for as long as she can.

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

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• Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

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

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

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• Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation.

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

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

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• Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

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  Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

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• When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

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  Make voyages! Attempt them! There’s nothing else.

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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.

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Tennessee Williams (58)

Birth:	26th March, 1911
Death:	25th February, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Playwriter, Writer

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