1. “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” Tennessee Williams
2. “Success and failure are equally disastrous.” Tennessee Williams
3. “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
4. “Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?” Tennessee Williams
5. “Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.” Tennessee Williams
6. “Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.” Tennessee Williams
7. “Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.” Tennessee Williams
8. “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.” Tennessee Williams
9. “The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details, others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.” Tennessee Williams
10. “Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?” Tennessee Williams
11. “Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.” Tennessee Williams
12. “The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.” Tennessee Williams
13. “You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.” Tennessee Williams
14. “Everybody is nothing until you love them.” Tennessee Williams
15. “Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.” Tennessee Williams
16. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” Tennessee Williams
17. “Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.” Tennessee Williams
18. “There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.” Tennessee Williams
19. “I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.” Tennessee Williams
20. “Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.” Tennessee Williams
21. “To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.” Tennessee Williams
22. “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.” Tennessee Williams
23. “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.” Tennessee Williams
24. “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!” Tennessee Williams
25. “Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.” Tennessee Williams
26. “All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.” Tennessee Williams
27. “At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.” Tennessee Williams
28. “The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.” Tennessee Williams
29. “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.” Tennessee Williams
30. “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.” Tennessee Williams
31. “There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.” Tennessee Williams
32. “Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.” Tennessee Williams
33. “Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.” Tennessee Williams
34. “If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?” Tennessee Williams
35. “We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!” Tennessee Williams
