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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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