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 WILLIAMSI don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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