At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBeing disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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