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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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