If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSJust tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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