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 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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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 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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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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