When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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