If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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