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 WILLIAMSSuccess is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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