I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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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.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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