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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The 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.
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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.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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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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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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