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 WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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