When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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I 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.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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