Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSomething in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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