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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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