If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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