Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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 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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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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