I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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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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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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