Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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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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.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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