The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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