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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 Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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 have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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