I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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