To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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