A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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 world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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