Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWilliam Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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