Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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