A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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 have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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