Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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