The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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 only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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