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Character Quotes by Tennessee Williams
- But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected…
- 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.
- I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out…
- 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…
- I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
- In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
- People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America…
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