And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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