It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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 try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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