Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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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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