Luck is believing you’re lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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