If people behaved in the way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
(Attributed)
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ESMERALDA: Everyone says he’s sincere, but everyone isn’t sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he’s sincere there wouldn’t be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there’s nothing else.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Camino Royale [Byron] (1953)
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it. You’ve got to be old with money because to be old without it is just too awful, you’ve got to be one or the other, either young or with money, you can’t be old and without it.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 1 [Margaret] (1955)
(Source)
Isn’t egomania always the precondition of all creative work? I have found little to dispel that notion.
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Memoirs, ch. 9 (1975)