If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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