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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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 can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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