At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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