There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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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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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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