If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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