There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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 unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We 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!
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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