If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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 thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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