Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t 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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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