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 WILLIAMSDon’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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