Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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