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“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”

Book:Conversations with Tennessee Williams

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Conversations with Tennessee Williams is a compilation of in-depth interviews with the iconic American playwright. The book delves into Williams' thoughts on his works, including 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', as well as his experiences and inspirations throughout his career. It provides a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential figures in American theater. more

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Tennessee Williams

American playwright, renowned for his profound psychological portrayals and unique dramatic style. His notable works include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie'. more

“This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.”

Writing Looks Play Running Faith Speak Sin Walks Laughing Cry Praying Taste Draws Dare Smell Active Circles Experiments Scream Bows Provoking Repent Verbs Hide And Seek Emote

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“I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?”

Art Term Wonder Concern Our Society Spokes Elites Pastime Optional

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.”

World Stories Found Lost Left Walks Creativity Path Middle Movement Position Conversation Diversity Compromise Variety Complexity Missionary Making Love Inability Middle Path

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.”

Knows World Body Spiritual Life Is Imagination Holy Faithful Betray

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.”

Animal Accepting Holy Authority Sacred Vegetables Trinity Minerals Holy Trinity

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“There is no one true church, no one chosen people.”

People Church Chosen

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“Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!”

World Feelings Joy Source Sorrow Eternal Dear Thee Divinity Sensibility Fountain

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Tired of myself longing for what I have not”

Longing Tired

Book:Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady : Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage

Source: Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady : Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage

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