A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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