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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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