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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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