Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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 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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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We 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.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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