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 WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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 have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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