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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTime doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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