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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams quotes about success

American Playwright March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983

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But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with the conflict removed, the man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and that the fangs of this wolf are all the little vanities and laxities that Success... Tennessee Williams
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, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition. Tennessee Williams
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. Tennessee Williams
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. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Success and failure are equally disastrous."
Success and failure are equally disastrous. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for..."
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

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