All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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