If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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