Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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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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