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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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At 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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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