I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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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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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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