Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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