All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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