Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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It 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.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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I 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.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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