An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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