A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSRevolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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