At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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