There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAn artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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