You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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