If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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