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 WILLIAMSThe object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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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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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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