Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMake voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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