I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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 think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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