There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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