Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhomever 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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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