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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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