It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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