You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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