There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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