The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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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’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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