Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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