There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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 doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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