At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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