The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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