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 WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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