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 WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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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 are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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