I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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