Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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