Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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 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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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