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 WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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