Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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