When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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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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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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