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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOpenings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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