There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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 violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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