At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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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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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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