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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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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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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 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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I 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.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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