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 WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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