If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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