And 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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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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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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