Everybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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