The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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