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 WILLIAMSAdd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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 object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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