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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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