The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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