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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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