Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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