If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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