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 WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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