We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMarriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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