I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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