Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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