To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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