An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m 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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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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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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