Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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