In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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