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!”
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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