I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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 most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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