And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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