It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAn artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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 have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I try to work every day because 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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