Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBeing disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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