And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsa…

Tennessee Williams
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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 (1994). Collected Stories, p.274, New Directions Publishing
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