Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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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.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I 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.
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