All good art is an indiscretion.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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