At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m 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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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