Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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