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 WILLIAMSAnd funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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