This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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