Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSRevolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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