There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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