I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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 biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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