"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness!"
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Tennessee Williams: "Acceptance of not knowing..."
"Acceptance of not knowing anything but the moment of still existing, until we stop existing - and acceptance of that moment, too."
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Tennessee Williams: "You're a fool if..."
"You're a fool... if you don't know that finally, sooner or later, you need somebody or something to mean God to you."
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Tennessee Williams: "Then it gets dark..."
"Then it gets dark. We're left alone with each other: we have to creep close to each other before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's miracles."
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Tennessee Williams: "I think the truth..."
"I think the truth is too delicate and, well, dangerous to be played with. It has to be handled with the carefullest care, or somebody hurts somebody and gets hurt back."
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Tennessee Williams: "Some people don't need..."
"Some people don't need love, if you can call 'em people, but I do, it's the breath of life to me..."
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
—Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Julia Cameron: "I want time to..."
"I want time to walk, not run. I'd go so far as to say I want time to dawdle."
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
Julia Cameron: "I realized that I..."
"I realized that I was probably in the best position of my life. I may not yet have all that I want but I have far more than I've ever had previously."
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
Julia Cameron: "It's so full of..."
"It's so full of promise. As it stands, it's halfway terrific and halfway flawed."
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
Julia Cameron: "What we can't master..."
"What we can't master today, we might well master tomorrow. Our skills may catch up to our vision after all."
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
Julia Cameron: "The artist's life can..."
"The artist's life can be tumultuous, and yet I chose it - and choose it again on a daily basis."
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
Julia Cameron: "And so I take..."
"And so I take a deep breath, trying to fill my lungs with oxygen and my life with gratitude. Gratitude slows down the pace. Gratitude renders the glass half full."
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
—Julia Cameron, The Creative Life
Kim Edwards: "You could not presume..."
"You could not presume to know what life was or what it might hold."
—Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
—Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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