It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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