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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSPhysical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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