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Play Quotes by Tennessee Williams
- Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
- Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.
- I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays.…
- 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…
- I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the…
- 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…
- Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of…
- William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!"…
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