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I don't want realism. I want magic!
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Realism
Magic
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Blanche
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.
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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
Tennessee Williams
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
Tennessee Williams
We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
Tennessee Williams
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
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
Tennessee Williams
