At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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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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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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