It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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