The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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