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.
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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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