A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSKill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd 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 WILLIAMS