We 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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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