Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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In 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.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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 comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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