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 WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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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 am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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