Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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