Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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 world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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