In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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