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 WILLIAMSOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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