The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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