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 WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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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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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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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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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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