When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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