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 WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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