Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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