I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMaggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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