Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSFor time is the longest distance between two places.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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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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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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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