I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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