I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS