When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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