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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.

Tennessee Williams

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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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