Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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