I don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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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