Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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