You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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