The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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