An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe name of a person you love is more than language.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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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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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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