If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Add 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.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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