The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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