Luck is believing you’re lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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