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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFriends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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