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.
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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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