All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSKill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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