You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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