Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThey 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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 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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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