If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHe gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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And 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.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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