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 WILLIAMSI believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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