Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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