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 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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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