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 WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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