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 WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Don’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?
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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