If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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