America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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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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