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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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