There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMake voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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