Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe name of a person you love is more than language.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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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.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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