Luck is believing you’re lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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