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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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