The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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
-
-
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Some things are not forgiveable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS