When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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