America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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