An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThey told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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