I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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