If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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