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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSome 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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