Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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