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 WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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