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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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