Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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 believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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