I am more faithful than I intended to be!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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 don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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