It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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 future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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