Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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 then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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