I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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