Guessing isn’t knowing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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