All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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