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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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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 human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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