An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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