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 WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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