All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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 then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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