Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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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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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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What 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.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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