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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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