Knows Quotes by Tennessee Williams

9 Knows quotes by Tennessee Williams

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Tennessee Williams’s dramatic flair turns ordinary awareness into heightened emotion. These nine lines reveal his lyrical intensity and the tender vulnerability that runs through his plays.

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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 can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know,…

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Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the…

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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…

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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal…

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The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the…

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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…

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I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in…

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Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,…

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“Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind”

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These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving…

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“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans…

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People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in…

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They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the…

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You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

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Guessing isn't knowing.

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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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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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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

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I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South…

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“The Jefferson is such a dignified hotel / There is no such thing.”

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“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”

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“As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?”

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