If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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 world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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