When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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