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 WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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