Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.
Tennessee WilliamsWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
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Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!
Tennessee WilliamsIn memory, everything seems to happen to music.
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Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?
Tennessee WilliamsLife that winter in Rome: a golden dream, and I don't mean Rafaello and the mimosa and the total freedom of life. Stop there: What I do mean is the total freedom of life and Rafaello and the mimosa and the letto matrimoniale and the Frascati when morning work was over.
Tennessee WilliamsNobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything that's dynamic and expressivee--that's what's good for you if you're at all serious in your aims. William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
Tennessee WilliamsWhy, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!
Tennessee WilliamsBut there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
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