The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWilliam 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!”
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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