If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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