There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever 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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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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