Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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