Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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