The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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