Tennessee Williams Quotes - Famous Quotes by Tennessee Williams
Born: 1911-03-26
Died: 1983-02-25
Tennessee Williams Biography
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
- Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by a bat.
- Tennessee Williams
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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Tennessee Williams
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question.
- Tennessee Williams
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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.
- Tennessee Williams
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Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else...
- Tennessee Williams
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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.
- Tennessee Williams
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Security is a kind of death.
- Tennessee Williams
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
- Tennessee Williams
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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.
- Tennessee Williams
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
- Tennessee Williams
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
- Tennessee Williams
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
- Tennessee Williams
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Time is the longest distance between two places.
- Tennessee Williams
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
- Tennessee Williams
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
- Tennessee Williams
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