If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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