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 WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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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’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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