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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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