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 world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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