At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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