I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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