Dead people Quote by Tennessee Williams

““Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!””

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You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

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Guessing isn't knowing.

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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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

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

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I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

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I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South…

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