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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• Tennessee Williams:

  Success and failure are equally disastrous.

• Tennessee Williams:

  We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

• Tennessee Williams:

  For time is the longest distance between two places.

• Tennessee Williams:

  I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

• Tennessee Williams:

  Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

• Tennessee Williams:

  Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold o

• Tennessee Williams:

  Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for ano

• Tennessee Williams:

  The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

• Tennessee Williams:

  Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. W

• Tennessee Williams:

  Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.