I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNot facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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