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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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