If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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They 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!
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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