Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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