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?
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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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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