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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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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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