Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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When 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.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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