Luck is believing you’re lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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