Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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 always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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