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 WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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