I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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