We 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBlanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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