When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAmerica has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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