I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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