Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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