I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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