The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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How 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?
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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