Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSJust tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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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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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with 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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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