Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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