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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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