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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSomething in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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