Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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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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