I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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