Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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