We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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