When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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