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Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.


Dar Williams

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RICKY WILLIAMS We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened ...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS For time is the longest distance between two places.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the que...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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