The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I 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.
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