Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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In 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.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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