This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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