We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhomever 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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAnd 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 WILLIAMSIt is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLuck is believing you’re lucky.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS