At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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