There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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