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Tennessee Williams Quotes

I wrote because I had to. I couldn’t stop. There wasn’t anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I’d still be writing. It’s beyond a compulsion Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs! Picture Quote #1

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We live on two levels... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really? Picture Quote #1

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going! Picture Quote #1

The human heart would never pass the drunk test... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it Picture Quote #1

I don’t think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents Picture Quote #1

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny Picture Quote #1

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These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? Picture Quote #1

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding Picture Quote #1

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 it that’s sinful, then let me be damned for it! Picture Quote #1

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. 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 predominantly in the heart Picture Quote #1

It’s interesting, isn’t it?... the chandelier... it reminds me of mushroom soup Picture Quote #1

I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? Picture Quote #1

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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away Picture Quote #1

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It’s the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it Picture Quote #1

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing Picture Quote #1

The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy Picture Quote #1

Girls that aren’t cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man Picture Quote #1

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we’re all ambiguous sexually Picture Quote #1

I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It’s like nothing else. It’s like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn’t end in marriage. It’s all courtship Picture Quote #1

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I wrote because I had to. I couldn’t stop. There wasn’t anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I’d still be writing. It’s beyond a compulsion (Tennessee Williams Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs! (Tennessee Williams Quotes) We live on two levels... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really? (Tennessee Williams Quotes) We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going! (Tennessee Williams Quotes) The human heart would never pass the drunk test... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I don’t think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents (Tennessee Williams Quotes) The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny (Tennessee Williams Quotes) These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding (Tennessee Williams Quotes) 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 it that’s sinful, then let me be damned for it! (Tennessee Williams Quotes) The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. 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 predominantly in the heart (Tennessee Williams Quotes) It’s interesting, isn’t it?... the chandelier... it reminds me of mushroom soup (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? (Tennessee Williams Quotes) A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away (Tennessee Williams Quotes) Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It’s the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing (Tennessee Williams Quotes) The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy (Tennessee Williams Quotes) Girls that aren’t cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man (Tennessee Williams Quotes) Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I don’t think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we’re all ambiguous sexually (Tennessee Williams Quotes) I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself (Tennessee Williams Quotes) 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 (Tennessee Williams Quotes) To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die (Tennessee Williams Quotes) 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 (Tennessee Williams Quotes) There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It’s like nothing else. It’s like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn’t end in marriage. It’s all courtship (Tennessee Williams Quotes)

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