The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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