You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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 I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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