Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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