At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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