Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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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.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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