Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSJust tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow 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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
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