Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever 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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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