To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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