If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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