Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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