Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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