And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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