Tennessee Williams Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Fleeting, Eternity

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

• I don't want realism. I want magic!

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Desire, Want

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 9 (1947)

• I don't want realism. I'll tell you what 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 truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

  Tennessee Williams

  People, Giving, Magic

  "A Streetcar Named Desire".

• We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Want, Might

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