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 all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
All good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS