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 WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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