A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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I 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.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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