For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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