Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThey told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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