The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAn artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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