Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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