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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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