Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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