Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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 have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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