We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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