I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBut these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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