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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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 civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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