I don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLuck is believing you’re lucky.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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