Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
