Tennessee Williams Quotes

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

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  Being Yourself, Ifs

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.230, New Directions Publishing

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• There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

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  Suicide, Vanity, Mirrors

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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.

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  Life, Inspiring, Memories

  Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

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  Dies

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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  All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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  Truth, Honesty, People

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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

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  I Hate You, Angel, Demon

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

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  Way, Apologizing, Our Family

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• There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

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  Heart, People, Littles

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

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  Fire

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.32, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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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.

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  Heart, Gay, Lgbt Community

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Funny, Humor, World Suffering

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• The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

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  Art, Fleeting, Moments

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

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  Liars, Lying, Hypocrite

  Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't want realism. I want magic!

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  Magic, Desire, Want

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 9 (1947)

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• Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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  Life, Friendship, Birthday

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• The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

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  Unforgivable Sin, Cruelty, Deliberate

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• Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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  Life Lesson, Believe, Memorial

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

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  Memories, Heart, Emotional

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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

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  Funny, Life, Motivational

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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  Time, Nature, Flower

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

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  Vanity, Glasses, Competition

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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  Family, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

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• Everybody is nothing until you love them.

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  Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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