An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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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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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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