The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAmerica has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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