The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThis 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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