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 only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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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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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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