Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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