An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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