An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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