We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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