All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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It 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.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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