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 WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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