Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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