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 WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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