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
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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