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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in 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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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