All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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 is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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