Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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