And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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