The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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