There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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We 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!
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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