Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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