If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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 most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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