Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSGuessing isn’t knowing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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