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 WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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