I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYouth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt 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 WILLIAMSWe’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
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