At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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