I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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 woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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