Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAmerica has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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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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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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