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 WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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