If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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