The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThat time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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