A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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