An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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