Tennessee Williams Quotes

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Luck is believing you're lucky.
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.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
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?
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
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.
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Tennessee Williams
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26 March, 1911
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25 February, 1983
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