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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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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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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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