Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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