I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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The 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.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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 most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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