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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYouth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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 to another person.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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