To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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