Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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Physical 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!
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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