There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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