I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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