Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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