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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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