It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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.
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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 you?
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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.
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