There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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