533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

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    I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.

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

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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.

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    Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than broken down.

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    We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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    I think that hate is a thing, a feeling, that can only exist where there is no understanding.

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    Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

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