Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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 see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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