Luck is believing you’re lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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