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 WILLIAMSDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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