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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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