I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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