All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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