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 WILLIAMSWhen 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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