There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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