Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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 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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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