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 WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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