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 WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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