You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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