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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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 strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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