Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThat time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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