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From Quotes by Tennessee Williams
- At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
- Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
- Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
- If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
- You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody…
- Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.
- The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I…
- We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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