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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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