When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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