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!
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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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