At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMake voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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