We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAmerica has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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