Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAn artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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