There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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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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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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