All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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 have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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