Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSMarriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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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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