Tennessee Williams Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

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  Life, Reality, Grace

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

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  Writing, Reality, Age

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.7, Heinemann

• Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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  Family, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

• 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.

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  Reality, Artist, Doe

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.102, New Directions Publishing

• We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?

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  Real, Two, Levels

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.317, New Directions Publishing

• Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Reality, Essence

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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