When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAmerica has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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