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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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 always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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