Tennessee Williams

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."
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"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."
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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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"To be free is to have achieved your life."
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"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
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"All good art is an indiscretion."
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"For time is the longest distance between two places."
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"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
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"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."
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"It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup."
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"When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working."
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"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."
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"Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going."
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
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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."
Tennessee Williams
"High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
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"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life."
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"Security is a kind of death."
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"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."
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"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."
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