It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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.
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