Tennessee Williams
"The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
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"The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
"المستقبل يُدعى "ربما"، وهو الاسم الوحيد الذي"
Tennessee Williams
"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."
"الترف ذئبٌ على الباب، وأنيابه الغرور والخيلاء التي يزرعها النجاح. وحين يدرك الفنان ذلك، يعرف مكمن الخطر."
Tennessee Williams
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
"إن النجاح يحجب بالتركيز عليه والتخطيط له... النجاح خجول – لن يظهر وأنت تراقبه."
Tennessee Williams
"To be free is to have achieved your life."
"أن تكون حراً هو أن تكون قد بلغت غاية حياتك."
Tennessee Williams
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
"يمكنك أن تكون شابًا بلا مال، لكن لا يمكنك أن تكون عجوزًا بدونه."
Tennessee Williams
"For time is the longest distance between two places."
"فالزمن أبعد المسافات بين مكانين."
Tennessee Williams
"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
"الكذب نظام نعيش فيه. الخمر مخرج، والموت هو الآخر."
Tennessee Williams
"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."
"لطالما كان السلب هو دافعي. ففشل مسرحيةٍ ما، وإن بدا ظاهراً، يدفعني إلى آلة كاتبتي في الليلة ذاتها، قبل حتى صدور المراجعات. إنني أجد في نفسي حافزاً للعودة إلى العمل أقوى مما لو حققت نجاحاً."
Tennessee Williams
"It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup."
Tennessee Williams
"When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working."
Tennessee Williams
"I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all."
Tennessee Williams
"Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going."
Tennessee Williams
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching."
Tennessee Williams
"High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
Tennessee Williams
"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life."
Tennessee Williams
"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."
Tennessee Williams
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