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 WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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 am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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