I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When 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.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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