The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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