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 WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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 am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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