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Tennessee Williams - From the Adventure category:
Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Art category:
All good art is an indiscretion. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Beauty category:
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Belief category:
Luck is believing you're lucky. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Blocks category:
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Blocks category:
That block has always been there and always will be, and my chance of getting, or achieving, anything that I long for will always be gravely reduced by the interminable existence of that block. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Complaining category:
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Confidence category:
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Construction category:
It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Danger category:
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Dissatisfaction category:
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Dreams category:
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Drunkenness category:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
'Mendacity is a system that we live in,' declares Brick. 'Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.' (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Ego category:
Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Enthusiasm category:
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Failure category:
The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Freedom category:
To be free is to have achieved your life. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Friendship category:
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Friendship category:
Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Future category:
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Goodness category:
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. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts... (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Goodness category:
Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything that's dynamic and expressive - that's what's good for you if you're at all serious in your aims. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Guilt category:
Guilt is universal. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Humanity category:
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Illusion category:
-The Glass Menagerie
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Insecurity category:
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Life category:
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Life category:
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Lines category:
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Loneliness category:
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Loneliness category:
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Magic category:
-A Streetcar Named Desire...
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And if that's sinful, then let me be damned for it! (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Memory category:
In memory everything seems to happen to music. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Memory category:
-The Glass Menagerie...
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistc. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantely in the heart. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Mirrors category:
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Money category:
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Mysteries category:
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. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Nature category:
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Opportunity category:
-Orpheus Descending...
What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken? (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Perfection category:
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. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Power category:
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Prayer category:
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Questions category:
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Religion category:
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Solitude category:
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Strength category:
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. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Struggle category:
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Success category:
Success and failure are equally disastrous. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Success category:
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Suffering category:
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Survival category:
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Survival category:
Kill all my demons, and my angels might die too. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Time category:
I didn't go to the moon, I went much further - for time is the longest distance between two places. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Time category:
Time is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Travel category:
Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Travel category:
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Trust category:
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Vulnerability category:
All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Words category:
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Work category:
When I stop working, the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. (Tennessee Williams)
Tennessee Williams - From the Writing category:
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. (Tennessee Williams)
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