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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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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!”
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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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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