Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWilliam 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!”
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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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 high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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