Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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