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Famous Tennessee Williams Quotes
“I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.”
“Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.”
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
“I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
“Luck is believing you're lucky.”
“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”
“To be free is to have achieved your life.”
“We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
“The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.”
“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”
“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”
“You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.”