Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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