I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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 prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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