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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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