If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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It’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.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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