Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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