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Quotes Tennessee Williams

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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Religion | Clicks: 423 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Money | Clicks: 640 | Rank: 8.00 | Fav

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 332 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Solitude | Clicks: 434 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 151 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 107 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Cheating | Clicks: 616 | Rank: 9.00 | Fav

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.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 135 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Liberty | Clicks: 393 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Time | Clicks: 674 | Rank: 9.50 | Fav

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 289 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 133 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't...

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Truth | Clicks: 130 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Lie | Clicks: 953 | Rank: 9.71 | Fav

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.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Future | Clicks: 376 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Succes | Clicks: 383 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 108 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Reliability | Clicks: 152 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Good luck | Clicks: 419 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Author: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) | Theme: Life | Clicks: 289 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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