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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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