All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams 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.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams 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.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams I am more faithful than I intended to be!
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Everybody is nothing until you love them.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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