You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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