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 WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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