The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLuck is believing you’re lucky.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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