Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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