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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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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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