Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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 reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face 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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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