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 WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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