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 WILLIAMSDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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.
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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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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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