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Quotations by author » Tennessee Williams
American playwright. 1911-1983
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How sad a thing for an artist to abandon his art: I think it's much sadder than death ...,
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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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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Kindness
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.
Character
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
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Just another four letter word
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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
Life
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question
Life
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
FriendsFriendshipLife
Luck is believing you're lucky.
Luck
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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Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.
Travel
Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.
Criticism
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Confidence
Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...
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