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 WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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