Tennessee Williams Quotes

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

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

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

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Time is the longest distance between two places.

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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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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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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.

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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

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

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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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

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