If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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