Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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