An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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