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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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.
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