At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for 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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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