When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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 think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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