There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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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 only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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