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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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