The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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