When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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