All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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