The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSJust tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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