I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When y…

Tennessee Williams
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. 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. ✨ Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). Conversations with Tennessee Williams, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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