26.2.09

Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)

- Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

- 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.

- If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

- Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

- 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.

- When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

- Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

- Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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1 comment:

  1. Hello

    I'm blog hopping round other people who are interested in writing and happened to land here on the way.

    Best wishes.

    Mary Sharpe

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