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 WILLIAMSWe are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The 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.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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