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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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