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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.
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Make voyages Attempt them ... there's nothing else.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding-not even that-no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!
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They told me to take a streetcar named desire and then transfer to on called cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian fields!
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Tennessee Williams
Occupation:
American Dramatist
Born:
March 26, 1911
Died:
February 25, 1983
Quotes count:
169
Wikipedia:
Tennessee Williams
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