The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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