Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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