The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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