I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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