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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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