Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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