Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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William 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!”
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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