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 WILLIAMSSome 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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