We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I 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.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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