If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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