Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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 are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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