Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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