In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGlass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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