An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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