There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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 have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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