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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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