Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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