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 WILLIAMSWe are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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