There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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