Tennessee Williams Quotes (33 quotations)
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1. ...Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life! - Tennessee Williams
2. [He is] a sweetly vicious old lady. - Tennessee Williams
3. A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. - Tennessee Williams
4. A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. - Tennessee Williams
5. All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. - Tennessee Williams
6. Hell is yourself [and the only redemption is] when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. - Tennessee Williams
7. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. - Tennessee Williams
8. 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
9. I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. - Tennessee Williams
10. If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed. - Tennessee Williams
11. If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. - Tennessee Williams
12. 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
13. Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else... - Tennessee Williams
14. Make voyages! Attempt them...there's nothing else. - Tennessee Williams
15. Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics. - Tennessee Williams
16. Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. - Tennessee Williams
17. My own creed as a playwright is fairly close to that expressed by the painter in Shaw's play The Doctor's Dilemma, "I believe in Michelangelo, Velásquez and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by beauty everlasting and the message of art that has made these hands blessed. Amen." - Tennessee Williams
18. Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. - Tennessee Williams
19. Security is a kind of death. - Tennessee Williams
20. 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
21. Success and failure are equally disastrous. - Tennessee Williams
22. 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
23. The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. 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? - Tennessee Williams
24. The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams
25. There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. - Tennessee Williams
2. [He is] a sweetly vicious old lady. - Tennessee Williams
3. A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. - Tennessee Williams
4. A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. - Tennessee Williams
5. All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. - Tennessee Williams
6. Hell is yourself [and the only redemption is] when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. - Tennessee Williams
7. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. - Tennessee Williams
8. 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
9. I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion. - Tennessee Williams
10. If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed. - Tennessee Williams
11. If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. - Tennessee Williams
12. 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
13. Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else... - Tennessee Williams
14. Make voyages! Attempt them...there's nothing else. - Tennessee Williams
15. Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics. - Tennessee Williams
16. Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. - Tennessee Williams
17. My own creed as a playwright is fairly close to that expressed by the painter in Shaw's play The Doctor's Dilemma, "I believe in Michelangelo, Velásquez and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by beauty everlasting and the message of art that has made these hands blessed. Amen." - Tennessee Williams
18. Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. - Tennessee Williams
19. Security is a kind of death. - Tennessee Williams
20. 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
21. Success and failure are equally disastrous. - Tennessee Williams
22. 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
23. The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. 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? - Tennessee Williams
24. The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams
25. There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. - Tennessee Williams
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