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Tennessee Williams Inspirational Quotes (135)

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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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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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.
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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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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.
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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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