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 WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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