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Tennessee Williams Quotes about Reality

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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Tennessee Williams
Family, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

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

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

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

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

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
Reality, Artist, Doe
Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.102, 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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