An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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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.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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