To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNot facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of 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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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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