At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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 try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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