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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.

Tennessee Williams

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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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