Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light. Tennessee Williams More Quotes by Tennessee Williams More Quotes From Tennessee Williams Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. Tennessee Williams birthday friendship life I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life. Tennessee Williams visiting gave-up too-much You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance. Tennessee Williams glasses wine baby Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people? Tennessee Williams two people thinking Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation. Tennessee Williams separation doe friendship A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. Tennessee Williams grace life reality The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Tennessee Williams tongue dangerous brother 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 broken writing trying Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. Tennessee Williams inspiring memories life For time is the longest distance between two places. Tennessee Williams distance time two I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in. Tennessee Williams hate hero believe Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. Tennessee Williams redemption hell feels To be free is to have achieved your life. Tennessee Williams life-changing live-by life All good art is an indiscretion. Tennessee Williams good-art art-is art Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes. Tennessee Williams ruins no-matter-what matter I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself. Tennessee Williams weakness theatre writing It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable. Tennessee Williams artist doe reality Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. Tennessee Williams fleeting magic eternity 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. Tennessee Williams block artist writing The name of a person you love is more than language. Tennessee Williams language names love-is
