Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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