This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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