I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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