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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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