Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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