Everybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The 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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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 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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS