The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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