All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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