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 WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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