I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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