Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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