Famous Tennessee Williams Quotations

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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
by Tennessee Williams
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
by Tennessee Williams
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
by Tennessee Williams
"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."
by Tennessee Williams
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
by Tennessee Williams
"All good art is an indiscretion"
by Tennessee Williams
"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
by Tennessee Williams
"Just another four letter word"
by Tennessee Williams
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and important of the question."
by Tennessee Williams
"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."
by Tennessee Williams
"Make voyages! Attempt them...there's nothing else."
by Tennessee Williams
"Make voyages - Attempt them - there's nothing else..."
by Tennessee Williams
"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."
by Tennessee Williams
"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."
by Tennessee Williams
"Security is a kind of death."
by Tennessee Williams
"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
by Tennessee Williams
"The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny."
by Tennessee Williams
"There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go."
by Tennessee Williams
"To be free is to have achieved your life."
by Tennessee Williams
"To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between."
by Eloise Salholz
"Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels."
by Dakin Williams
"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
by Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
by Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
by Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!"
by Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
"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."
by Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
by Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
"You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with."
by Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
"Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going."
by Tennessee Williams


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