We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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