When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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 can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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