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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams quotes

American Playwright March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983

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Tennessee Williams quote: "Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when..."
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running..."
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.... Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "There's a time for departure even when there's no certain..."
There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain..."
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. Tennessee Williams
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon? Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are..."
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. Tennessee Williams
You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip..."
I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip... Tennessee Williams
Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s..."
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others. Tennessee Williams
People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are. Tennessee Williams
I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest. Tennessee Williams
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. Tennessee Williams

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