And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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 am more faithful than I intended to be!
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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In 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.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Blanche: 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!
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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